Things with Wings

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This is the second week of the challenge Things with Wings over  at The Sisterhood of Crafters, I am so pleased I am able to add this card, which I made today. Thanks for the challenge sisters. 

 The details of my card

Green and white cardstock

Cuttlebug

Embossing folders Cuttlebug - Swiss Dots and Embossilicious Dots

Lily of the Valley stamp

Coloured using Promarkers.

Little bow from my stash.

The frame Dies, the greeting Stamp and Die, the gorgeous skeleton butterfly are all from

Go. Kreate.com 

Entered into -
  Use Your Stash - Challenge Flowers - Stash I have used up includes the pretty bow, had this for ages and ages, plus the dark green card stock.
I Love Promarkers - Not Quite Straight

Ruby's Rainbow Challenge

Hi everyone, at Ruby's Rainbow for the next two weeks, Silvi has chosen for our challenge - 

 Twine, Buttons and Embossing

Some of my favourite items to play with. As it happened, I was lucky to be at a craft event yesterday and bought myself a few stencil/embossing mats,  among them was this one of leaves, that became my starter. I then reached for my owls. For this card this is what I used:-

Kraft, Black and a small piece of white card stock.

Cuttlebug to emboss

Stencil/embossing mat of leaves

Distress Ink - Brushed Corduroy

Promarkers

Owls - Paperartsy Flora and Fauna 3

Buttons and Twine from stash. 

Looking forward to popping over to see your creations for our challenge. have fun. 

Challenge #16 -- TIME

Challenge #16 at Cardz 4 Guyz has been chosen by Jan, who decided upon TIME. This is always a popular topic for male cards so we are hoping for a good turnout of entries at the main blog. Please do pop over to see the Design Teams samples for you can't help but be inspired to go off and start planning your project. Last week I added on a scrapbook page for the Wheels challenge in an attempt to let all who visit us know we will accept anything which has been created with paper, this includes MDF and the remainder of altered art materials. I am following this on this week with my selection of gifts for a guy.
  Let me introduce you to them one by one.

A Gift Card Holder

Inside holder with Gift Card.

  A Fat Page 4" x 4"

An ATC - Artist Trading Card - 2.5" x 3.5"

A Bookmark

I used for the gifts the following

Blue and white cardstock, Distress Inks, Chipped Sapphire, Broken China, Tumbled Glass, Faded Jeans.

Stamps from several sets,  Paperartsy, Stampendous, 

Instructions for the Gift card holder are on  You Tube, it is so easy to make. 

hope to see you over on the Cardz 4 Guyz blog, thanks for taking the time to visit and hopefully comment. 

Distress It! at Fantasy Stampers

A new challenge starts today at Fantasy Stampers - Distress It!. I love the technique of distressing, you can either be soft and gentle, or shabby chic or go real crazy, get down dirty. I think this card is between the latter two. I'm so sorry for the black areas on the picture, it is actually gold embossing and even after several attempts with the photography the gold still looks black, unlike in real life where it is bright shiny gold.
Plain cream card  plus two pieces of the same card. Main card, I used a Harlequin stamp with Worn Lipstick DI, 2nd generation random stamping. Mat card was embossed in an embossing folder - brushed with Brushed Corduroy DI The edges of the mat card were scraped with the inside of a pair of old scissors, then the brushed Corduroy was rubbed on the edges.  Ribbon and bow, rose and hat pins added top the mat card. The main image was torn, brushed with Brushed Corduroy around the edges.  French Rose stamp from Inkylicious stamped with Versamark Heat embossed using white detail powder. Worn Lipstick  DI rubbed all over the card - Resist Technique I sprinkled Gold EP and sprinkled pink and white Frantage EP - heat embossed Curled up the edges, added to the card.  I hope you like it and forgive the lack of photography for this particular card. Please pop over to Fantasy Stampers to see the wonderful inspiration for the Design Team, we would love for you to enter this challenge, if your stressed then go for it, get down and get DISTRESSED!

April Showers at MTTC

At My Time to Craft this week, it seems so apt, for after having a beautiful sunny Easter in the UK,  here we are nearing the end of April with April Showers, we are looking for Umbrellas  in this challenge, so have fun everyone. I decided to go grungy with this card. For the background I used a piece of blue paper and stamped raindrops all over it in Chipped Sapphire Distress ink. For the main image I used the sentiment stamp, again using the raindrops stamp. I tore and distressed the edges, rubbed them with Vintage Photo Distress Ink, I then stamped the little girl with her Umbrella and coloured her with Promarkers. I made the bow using my gorgeous Envelope Punch Board.

Stamps used

Little Girl from Debbie Moore, set of girls

The sentiment and raindrops are from Words from Sheena Douglas

I added glossy Accents to many of the raindrops, which you may see if you click on the picture. 

I am hoping the rain quickly dies away, it would be nice to see some more sun. 

F is for Feathers

Hi everyone, it's Friday, and we are up to the letter F at Alphabet Challenges, Avril has chosen for the challenge Feathers. At first you may think not a lot of choice, but the more I thought, there is a world of Feathers out there, loads of wonderful birds with their feathers, feathers adorning magnificent dresses, feathers in Indian countries, feathers decorating Dream Catchers, fishermen use feathers on their lines. 

Sometime ago I purchased Sarah Hallum's first Zentangle CD which is amazing, I decided to simply go with an image of a Zentangled Feather, if you click to enlarge, the designs within the feather are amazing. I used a small feather stamp, free with a Craft Stamper magazine issue, for the background of the card.  I look forward to visiting you and thanks to those who took the time to visit my blog and for any comments left. 

Christmas Challenges All year Round

I know, I know, we've just had Easter and here I am entering a Christmas Challenge. I have just discovered this challenge blog, Christmas Challenges All Year Round, I need to be getting cards made well ahead, not only for my personal use but for my chosen charities, what better way than having some fun along the way.

The challenge for this week, yes, it is a weekly challenge, is this sketch. 

Materials used.........

A5 rectangle scalloped white card

Background papers from LOTV - Krafty Christmas Pad

Plain Dark brown card for matting

Crafter's Companions Stamp - Wish Upon A Star 

Coloured with Promarkers and Distress Inks

Christmas Sparkles stamp from Crafty Sentiments Designs

Card Candi from Stash